Jump the shark

Assuming you believe the Simpsons has jumped the shark, which episode do you think is the jump?

I just saw "Armand Tanzarian" in syndication, and I think that was the one. They just went totally into the crapper after that particular turd.

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One of the two earliest possibilities are Bart Gets an Elephant and Deep Space Homer.

IF it has jumped, of course. The entire series, going back to the first season, has some very odd moments.

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:10:49 -0600, [email] wrote:

Lisa = Eva Peron

In fact, any episode where that little yellow four-fingered bitch sings simply sucks out loud.

When did Lisa Jump the Shark?

when she started caring about the enviroment

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:10:39 -0800 (PST), "[email]" wrote:

When the producers thought Yeardley Smith's voice should be raised in song.

OFF Fan wrote:

C'mon, stop being coy... how do you really feel about Lisa's singing? <G>

[email] wrote:

HAW HAW HAW! What an original and refreshing bit of sarcasm!

"That Guy" wrote:

Much like yours.

[email] wrote:

Not really. Yours is very trite. Mine is at least somewhat original.

What wıth all the shark-sıttıng and shark-rıdıng ın "Thursdays with Abie" I was really hoping to see someone *jump* a shark and then maybe stare out at the camera and say something like "There. You happy now?"

No such luck. I wonder how the writers missed that?

Huh. Good point. You'd think they would have picked up on that gag years ago.

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, That Guy wrote:

There was that time that the dolphin "jumped the lisa".

Michael

With all of the shark sitting/riding references in "Thursdays with Abie" I really kept hoping someone would jump one of the critters...

How ever did the writers miss that?

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When she became a vegetarian, and then again when she became a buddhist.

There is no question about that.

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She practically started with a dorsal fin up her ass.

-- R Flowers

Yeah, but she used to be a little girl that liked ponies and Malibu Stacy dolls. Now she's like some sort of pedophilic sexual fantasy for the show's left-wing male writers.

I don't disagree, I was just making a stupid joke.

But yeah, basically she's bad when she's more strident. I don't think characters "jump the shark", that is, become irretrievably unwatchable.

-- R Flowers

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Except for Captain Lance Murdock, of course.

"Bones heal, chicks dig scars, and the United States of America has the best doctor-to-daredevil ratio in the world!"

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Literal shark-jumping is not the issue! :)

-- R Flowers

In article , [email] said... : :On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:10:49 -0600, [email] wrote: :

: :Lisa = Eva Peron : :In fact, any episode where that little yellow four-fingered bitch :sings simply sucks out loud.

Yeah but that's not 'jumping the shark'... aside from that, I couldnt agree more about lisa and her singing.

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Boy, there are a lot of different spellings of that first name. Shouldn't it be Armen?

Anyway, while that episode was a really dumb idea, I can't say that's when the show jumped as it was still usually good for several years afterwards. I would vote for I, D'ohbot. Thinking that it would be funny to see a bunch of cats die was not only a bad idea, it (along with the Homer-in-mortal-danger plot) signaled how far the show was now going to go toward tastelessness, implausibility, and the abandonment of the styles that made the show great in the first place. It has still had its moments after that, but there have been more misses than hits.

Homer wrote:

I don't think it has quite "jumped the shark" yet, although if I had to choose a moment, it would be when the show started rehashing plots. I am not quite sure at the moment exactly when that first happened.

(Besides, it wouldn't be the first show to jump the shark and then "jump back"...or "then jump the shark again," for that matter.)

-- Don

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The first episodes I remember thinking weren't funny were the ones where Marge gets the designer outfit and hangs out with those snobby women, and the one where Homer steals grease while Lisa tries to be "adult".

The first time I remember thinking, "They've lost it" was the Maude dies episode.

And yes, the one with all the dead cats was probably the first one I outright _hated_... a pathetic attempt at Family Guy shock humor.

[email] wrote:

The second episode of the first season (bart the genius) was disappointing.

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:54:37 -0800, weary flake wrote:

I beg to disagree. Actually it's all been downhill since "Good Night". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Night_(The_Simpsons_short)

In article , [email] said... : :Assuming you believe the Simpsons has jumped the shark, which episode :do you think is the jump? : :I just saw "Armand Tanzarian" in syndication, and I think that was the :one. They just went totally into the crapper after that particular :turd.

That ("Armand Tanzarian") is a good choice, I too thought at the time it originally aired that it was something of a significant departure from the basic Simpsons 'formula'. In comparison to what was to come in later years, it's pretty mild though. I'd have to go back through the last few years worth of episodes to pick which one I thought *really* jumped the shark.